OBJECTIVE To detect antibodies to recombinant vacuolating cytotoxin (r-VacA) of Helicobacter pylori in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). METHODS CSF samples from 13 patients with GBS (electrophysiologically classified as eight acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP), four acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN), and one unexcitable...

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Miller Fisher Syndrome (MFS) is an acquired disease of nervous system which is considered as a rare variant of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS). Collier first described in 1932 as a variant of the Guillain-Barre syndrome with the triad of ataxia, areflexia and ophthalmoplegia. Charles Miller Fisher in 1956 described 3 patients with the symptoms of sluggish pupillary reflexes, acute external ophtha...

Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is a group of autoimmune syndromes consisting of demyelinating and acute axonal degenerating forms of the disease. Nerve conduction study helps differentiate the heterogeneous subtypes of GBS. Patients exhibit a progressive paralysis that reaches a plateau phase. In most patients, resolution is complete or near complete. Mortality from GBS most often is associated ...

BACKGROUND We describe a case of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) associated with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. To our knowledge, only five cases of GBS associated with Hantavirus infection have been reported so far. CASE PRESENTATIONS A 62-year-old man presented intermittent fever, chill and oliguria. According to remarkable leukocytosis, atypical lymphocytes, thrombocytopenia and form...

background the etiology of the guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) is not clear; in many cases, gbs is triggered by a bacterial or viral illness. objectives to evaluate the role of active infection with herpesviridae group and its association with this syndrome we have investigated the cerebrospinal fluid (csf) and serum of patients with gbs for detection of these viruses. patients and methods in a pr...

Abstract Background Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an acute polyradiculoneuropathy, often preceded by infection. Rarely, it a surgical procedure. Most of the postsurgical GBS cases are reported with neurosurgical, gastrointestinal, orthopedic, and cardiac procedures. rarely after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). To date, only 12 have been in literature. Our case 13th number first from ...

A 16-month-old girl was diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and transferred to our hospital on the 58th day of the hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis after treatment failure according to the Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis-2004 protocol. On admission to our hospital, she had a flaccid paralysis of her lower limbs. Nerve conduction studies showed a acute motor...

n-hexane neuropathy has been described after glue sniffing and industrial exposure. onset may be subacute and reminiscent of guillain-barre' syndrome. five patients (15-18 years old) presented with paresthesia, severe weakness of the extremities particularly lower extremities, as well as muscular atrophy, total areflexia and gait disturbances were admitted in hospital in march 2003. all of thes...